Notable Quotes

Gentleness

A Great Book

When you begin a great work you can't expect to finish it all at once. — Teedyuscung, Delaware

Servants

December 05, 2016

We begin by letting the Powers know that we are willing to be their servants to others. — Fools Crow, Lakota

The Difference

December 02, 2016

The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment. — Unknown

The Bulldozer

November 30, 2016

The bulldozer or backhoe ripping into the earth, rips into our hearts. Our inability to stop this destruction makes us feel as though we are failing our ancestors and our children. If you destroy the land, you destroy what we believe in, who we are. — Representative Nick Rahall

Before You Go to War

November 28, 2016

Before you go to war, you try to figure out how not to go to war. — Rony Reed, Karuk

Old and Young

November 25, 2016

The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening. — Thomas Banyacya, Hopi

Retain the Language

November 23, 2016

If we had retained the language like we should have, the family structure would still be strong, It lies within the language, within the culture. — Zona Moss, Arapaho

Conquistadors

November 21, 2016

With the arrival of the conquistadors began the extermination of 90 million natives of South America and destruction of all cultures on this side of the Atlantic. There is nothing to celebrate on [Columbus Day], unless you want to celebrate the death and cultural destruction of the conquest. — Marta Gordillo, Argentine